Bitcoinity is being weird for me. It always shows the correct amount, but after a while it randomly shows $0 and won't ever get out of this dumb mode no matter how long I wait, until I refresh the page again and then the process repeats.

Bitcoinity is being weird for me. It always shows the correct amount, but after a while it randomly shows $0 and won't ever get out of this dumb mode no matter how long I wait, until I refresh the page again and then the process repeats.

Does bitcoinity get a special feed from mtgox or is it just the same as any of us could obtain?

btccharts.com appear to stay online when there's an outage like this as well.

I've been wondering about this too. My guess is that either they have multiple redundant connections set up at once, and refresh the ones that go down, or Mt. Gox gives them a special server address/socket to connect to that is less likely to go down.

Does bitcoinity get a special feed from mtgox or is it just the same as any of us could obtain?

btccharts.com appear to stay online when there's an outage like this as well.

I've been wondering about this too. My guess is that either they have multiple redundant connections set up at once, and refresh the ones that go down, or Mt. Gox gives them a special server address/socket to connect to that is less likely to go down.

You THINK they would have say.... 5 hardcore connections that go out to 5 servers that broadcast feeds out to everyone. this seems to be able to scale infinitely

Closing UTC day volume is around $21M USD, or considering MtGox takes 0.3-0.6% from each side of the trade, somewhere between $120K-$240K of revenue in 24 hrs. Still just 0.1% of the $154M/day revenue of JPMorgan Chase.